Re: finals ref # 33144

2002-12-18 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, Chris Burford writes, An article in the Observer on Sunday noted that Google has become something of a prosthetic memory for the human race. Doyle If you have a distribution list like this for example, google is an important tool. I write about the distribution list because

In Sacramento, James Cypher To Speak On U.S. Military Policy

2002-12-18 Thread Seth Sandronsky
December 18, 2002 News Release For more information: Call John Rowntree, (916) 446-1758 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org In Sacramento, James Cypher To Speak On U.S. Military Policy James Cypher will give a talk titled U.S. Military Policy on

rational expectations and market efficiency

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Perelman
'THE GAME OF THE NAME' A study by a group of finance professors at Purdue University shows that companies that shed their dot-com names, or some other hip, New Economy variation like E*twoMEDIA, saw their share prices rise 15.8% the day the news hit the market and a total of 21.6% in the 30 days

RE;Inquiry

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Venezuela Government Agency Looking For Unemployed Oil Workers

2002-12-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Thursday December 19, 12:14 AM Venezuela Government Agency Looking For Unemployed Oil Workers CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- The Venezuelan Labor Ministry's jobs agency has begun looking for unemployed oil engineers and technicians, the government's Venpres news agency reported Wednesday. The

Professor Steadfast in Fight For His Job

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Hoover
Professor steadfast in fight for his job By Mitch Stacy | The Associated Press Posted December 18, 2002 TAMPA -- A Palestinian professor with alleged terrorist ties vowed Tuesday to keep fighting for his job, one day after a federal judge refused to get involved in the University of South

Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Hoover
New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden Poor Could Pay A Bigger Share By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 16, 2002; Page A03 As the Bush administration draws up plans to simplify the tax system, it is also refining arguments for why it may be necessary to shift more

Re: Re: finals

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: [PEN-L:33140] Re: finals G'day Ian, It sounds very much like JK Galbraith, but as you do like to surprise us, I'm going to guess Milton Friedman. Cheers,

Participatory Democracy in Venezuela

2002-12-18 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Chaos and Constitution With his country teetering on the brink of disaster, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez clings to power -- thanks primarily to the passionate support of the nation's poor. By Barry C. Lynn January/February 2003 Issue The populist former paratrooper has mobilized Venezuela's poor

Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: [PEN-L:33183] Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes! New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden Poor Could Pay A Bigger Share By Jonathan

State of the Union

2002-12-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Nelson Lichtenstein. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xi + 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-05768-0. Reviewed by Richard P.

Missionary capitalist

2002-12-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Darlene Rivas. Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela. The Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society, and the State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 290 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2684-7;

Re: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread joanna bujes
We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. In the coming months, and perhaps years, we may face a tragedy that we read about in the darkest periods of human history, when elites are

RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I thought

Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I thought that such assertions

RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33190] Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence

Re: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: Devine, James wrote: joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt: We can be confident that in the long run their real interests will lead global elites to support empire and refuse any project of US imperialism. this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I

Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread e. ahmet tonak
I do not understand the need for a label. Having said this, my reading of their book suggests that, on the one hand, they are, in their own way, critical of post-modernist theories, on the other, they approvingly use the concept of post-modernity to identify the present phase of the

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33194] Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. As Ahmet says and Carrol agrees, I do not understand the need for a label. that's right. Labels don't really help much, especially since they tend to become reified. (Also, I'm no expert on postmodernism, since I have a

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread joanna bujes
The difference seems to be that Hardt seems to be pretty positively disposed toward ultra-imperialism (imperialist unity) or what he and Negri call empire. .. so the only question is, what can be learned from such scum? Joanna

RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: imperialism vs. Empire. I wasn't saying that they were scum since I didn't finish their book. Maybe they are, but more likely they're confused (being happy about being communist and the like). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original

Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: I wasn't saying that they were scum since I didn't finish their book. Maybe they are, but more likely they're confused (being happy about being communist and the like). And scummy Negri is still under the care of the Italian state because they think he's a dangerous

downsizing constitutional law

2002-12-18 Thread Devine, James
Title: downsizing constitutional law The Onion | 12/18/2002 Bill Of Rights Pared Down To A Manageable Six WASHINGTON, DC-Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration, President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that pares its 10 original

Re:imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Sabri Oncu
And scummy Negri is still under the care of the Italian state because they think he's a dangerous revolutionary. Doug Let's put Negri aside Doug. Put their book Empire aside too. Do you see anything that you (that is, Doug) can defend in this the Guardian article of Hardt? Sabri

Re: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

2002-12-18 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: And scummy Negri is still under the care of the Italian state because they think he's a dangerous revolutionary. Stalin mobilized Odessa workers against a pogrom. That was indeed a dangerous revolutionary act-- more dangerous to the regime than anything Negri has

job opening

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Do any of you find these job notices useful or am I just taking up bandwidth? The Department of Economics at Skidmore College invites applications for a one-year position for the 2003-04 academic year. This position may be renewed for a second year depending upon Departmental needs. Skidmore

Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Besides the obvious importance of this article, it is a useful reminder about how the Right wins its war of ideas. Total nonsense, repeated over and over finally becomes conventional wisdom. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 6:38 PM Subject: [PEN-L:33203] Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes! Besides the obvious importance of this article, it is a useful reminder about how

Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Nay, it's more complex than that. In the US, one would have to wadethrough all the books and magazine articles espousing "Christianeconomics"; yes such a beast does exist along the lines of Islamiceconomics etc. Check out the nearest large Christian bookstore nearyou.I'm not

Re: Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:03 PM Subject: [PEN-L:33205] Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes! Nay, it's more complex than that. In the US, one would have to wade

Re: Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving all that you have the poor and following Him, while (of course) rendering under Caesar what is Caesar's? jks The 'grail' would be

the humbling?

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
Corporate America's path to a very public humbling David Teather in New York Thursday December 19, 2002 The Guardian It became the defining image of US business in 2002 - senior executives led in handcuffs from the courts, displayed in front of the world's television cameras as a warning to

Re: Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving all that you have the poor and following Him, while (of course) rendering under Caesar what is Caesar's? jks === Deuteronomy 8:

Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Sabri Oncu
Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving all that you have the poor and following Him, while (of course) rendering under Caesar what is Caesar's? jks In case you don't know, Caesar's is the Canadian version of Bloody Mary. Except that instead of the usual tomato

Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: [PEN-L:33210] Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes! Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving all that you

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Deuteronomy 8: When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is

Re: the humbling?

2002-12-18 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 12/18/2002 10:39:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was also the year when once untouchable companies collapsed at an unprecedented rate. Five of the top 10 bankruptcies in US history occurred during 2002: Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, United Airlines

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More Taxes!

2002-12-18 Thread topp8564
On 19/12/2002 2:51 PM, Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it call for driving the moneylenders out of the temple, giving all that you have the poor and following Him, while (of course) rendering under Caesar

Turkey: Historian Killed Outside Home

2002-12-18 Thread Sabri Oncu
This may be an important development. The Turkish site of MSNBC reports this as the assassination that shook Turkey. Just saw this so I am sending it without any comment. I need to learn more before I can say anything. Michael Pollak was right: if you are from my part of the world, you find it

Google PEN-L and prosthetic memory

2002-12-18 Thread Chris Burford
I very much agree of course with the direction of Doyle's remarks, below. Yes there are contradictions aobut how much the new technologies of communication are privately owned by capital, and how much they are usable by freely associated men and women. My impression is that this technology